People say I was born with a camera in my hand.
My first camera was a Poloroid Swinger, given to me by my parents as a Christmas present. A Kodak 110 followed, then a Minolta SRT201 that took me all the way through college and graduate school at Pratt Institute. I would lock myself in the black and white or color darkrooms and only come out to sleep or find food. After earning an MFA in photography, and marrying the love of my life, I managed a one hour lab that used Noritsu machines. After four years there, my husband and I opened our own studio where we did portraiture, weddings and product photography. I did the printing in a hybrid darkroom setting using a Beseler-Minolta enlarger and a table top Beseler paper processor. Those were the good old film days.
We stopped shooting weddings and portraits when the digital age was upon us. Like Seinfeld the show, we stopped when we were at our peak--having given our clients the very best 21/4 quality pictures and hand-printed color photographs for fifteen years. We have been doing digital restoration of old photographs ever since 2000, and enjoy making expressive collages of people's life stories too, (no more scissors and glue!) When not doing work for our growing clientele, I am photographing flowers in extreme close-ups, practically climbing inside them! Or I am creating jewelry using natural gemstones.
Check out my 2nd shop: www.etsy.com/shop/earthgemdesign
My husband has always drawn the human figure, he's the one in the family born with a pencil in his hand. When he has spare time, he draws the female nude in charcoal and ink or digitally paints abstractions layered with color and texture on his iPad.
Check out his shop: www.etsy.com/shop/nudelines
